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...Squantum Island, her waterline standing out between her white topsides and the green paint on her mahogany underbody. She is 130 ft. overall, 86 ft. on the water; she has a canoe-like stern, long, overhanging bow, a longer and squarer keel than the other proposed defenders. L. Francis Herreshoff designed her. Her steel frame came from Pennsylvania, her mahogany from South America, her pine deck and spruce mast from Washington, her black walnut trimmings from Indiana...
Enterprise. In the famed Herreshoff Yards at Bristol, R. I., almost simultaneously with Shamrock V against which her backers hope she will race, workmen with a donkey engine gently lowered and launched the Enterprise, first and smallest of four yachts planned by rival U. S. syndicates to contend for the honor of defending America's cup. Awaiting Enterprise at City Island, N. Y., was "the biggest mast ever stepped into a sailing craft of any kind anywhere." Her backers: Harold Stirling Vanderbilt. Winthrop Williams Aldrich, Vincent Astor. George Fisher Baker Jr., Ogden Livingston Mills. E. Walter Clark, Floyd Leslie...
Another New York Syndicate, less overt about its membership, its plans. Probable designer-Charles Drown Mower or Charles Frederick Herreshoff (son of the late great James Brown Herreshoff, designer of the Resolute and its predecessors Vigilant, Defender, Columbia, Reliance...
...James Brown Herreshoff, yacht builder, inventor...
...rough weather. They sent her out to sea as a noble experiment. A week passed and they didn't hear from her whose name was Rofa, 50-foot schooner, smallest of four small schooners racing from Sandy Hook to Santander, Spain. Her rigging was peculiar-designed by Herreshoff, who learned about sails in Scandinavian fjords. On the morning of the seventh day out, she had covered 800 miles and was making splendid headway, with her mainsail, foresail, forestay sail and jib set and full. Suddenly, a squall hit little Rofa...